30 Apr 2008 This Month in Microstock – April 2008

What a month for microstock! Everything that can possibly happen happened this month. Here’s the long list of microstock news for April 2008.

The biggest news of the month was the announcement from LuckyOliver, the microstock agency with personality, that it was shutting down on May 15 due to funding shortfalls.

Dreamstime introduced a feature which enables contributors to assess the sales success of portions of their portfolio using lightboxes. They also partnered with ImageClick to make their images available in Korea.

Crestock introduced the photography industry to linkbait by announcing they’d bought Corbis on April 1. The gag did much for Crestock’s brand awareness and traffic levels, and got an extra boost when Corbis threatened legal action. Later in the month Crestock launched their referral program.